Five Moral Pieces
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780436410598 (0436410591)
ASIN: 436410591
Publish date: March 24th 2001
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Umberto Eco, Five Moral Pieces (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2001), translated by Alastair McEwen. Pp. 111. Hardcover $23.00. I had never read anything by Umberto Eco, and I knew that he is a leading thinker of our time. This was the book I picked up to read to acquaint myself with his philosophy and...
Although I don't quite agree with some material with which he predicates his arguments (mostly picky historical bits that I have a tendency to give excessive importance or centrality), I like what Eco wants to do (namely, reflect on 'what it means to be moral or ethical when one doesn't believe in G...